Robert Bresson

“Robert Bresson is the French Cinema, just like Dostoyevsky was the Russian Literature and Mozart the German music”, as Jean-Luc Godard said. A filmmaker that filled the definitions of film ethos and style with substance and meaning. The book, edited by Michel Demopoulos, opens with a text selection by Nikos Savvatis, Alexandros Moumtzis, and the unparalleled classic essay by André Bazin on Robert Bresson’s style and two exceptionally interesting interviews by the director. Following are his 14 films (with his own comments on each one of them), reviewed by the most eminent film critics- Roland Barthes, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer, Louis Malle, Jules Dassin, Michael Haneke, Georges Sadoul, Alain Bergala, Olivier Assayas, Alberto Moravia, Nikos Kolovos, Yannis Bakoyiannopoulos. The book closes with a detailed filmography by Thomas Linaras and the phrase “when someone flicks through the book of the history of cinema, the rustling sound of the pages, while they turn, is nothing but the divine music of the films of Robert Bresson”.